I am looking for an interactive (graphical or text interface) file manager which

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I am looking for an interactive (graphical or text interface) file manager which would be able to manage files and directories on a remote machine over protocols based on SSH (SSH itself, SFTP and SCP). It should have these features:

multiple directory panels / windows (to be able to see source and destination for copying / moving / linking)
control by keyboard shortcuts and possibly drag & drop
besides copy / move must be able to create links (both hard and soft link)
should provide scripting (ideally both local scripts and interactive running of remote scripts)
should run on Linux (natively, Wine or Mono) but I am also interested in Windows-only applications

Example of a known but insufficient program: WinSCP is a very good software but it is intended mainly for uploading and downloading. Remote file management capabilities are extremely limited: Cannot display more than one remote directory. Has only limited copy and move functionality (no links). Cannot run remote scripts interactively.

Explanation / Answer

Midnight Commander (mc) is a two-paned file manager in text-mode (actually a Norton Commander lookalike) which supports SFTP and FTP and should be able to fulfill most if not all of your requirements.

It supports hard and symlinks, also via key bindings, but I'm not sure how well this works over SFTP.

There's also a project which offers unofficial binary builds for Windows. Main target platform seems to Unix-ish operating systems. (I have no idea how well the STFP support works under Windows.)

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